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A suit-wearing minion of the sort hired inlegion strength by banks and insurance companies in the RealWorld to implement payroll packages in RPG and other suchunspeakable horrors. In its native habitat, the code grinderoften removes the suit jacket to reveal an underplumageconsisting of button-down shirt (starch optional) and a tie.In times of dire stress, the sleeves (if long) may be rolledup and the tie loosened about half an inch. It seldom helps.The code grinder's milieu is about as far from hackerdom asone can get and still touch a computer; the term connotespity.Used of or to a hacker, this term is a really serious sluron the person's creative ability; it connotes a design stylecharacterised by primitive technique, rule-boundedness, bruteforce and utter lack of imagination.Compare card walloper. Contrast real programmer.